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21 August, 2013

The workbook cannot be opened error while opening excel files in SharePoint 2010

I
am using SharePoint 2010 and when users click on an .xlsx document in a
document library it throws the following error message:

The workbook cannot be opened because it contains the following
features that are not supported by Excel in the browser:

• Data validation

• Sheet protection

Would you like to try and open this file in Excel?

Learn more about unsupported features

Number of things to check or
troubleshooting steps to find out the culprit:

1.Make
sure that this file is not broken. Download a copy of this file and edit it
Excel client. Remove the Consolidation, Data sources and Data validations on
the file to have a test whether it fixes this issue.

2.Check
the event viewer and try to find out the exact error information as it will
give you the account name where the problem lies.

3.Check
the SharePoint ULS logs where it will show the exact root cause.

6.If
there are unsupported features then you need to remove it before uploading that
excel file in SharePoint document library.

7.You
can define in the library settings whether or not to open documents in the
browser or the client application. The default is set on the server, but you
can overrule that at the library level. Since Excel Services cannot open
workbooks with data validation, graphic object or VBA, many Excel files with
basic functionality simply won't load in the browser.

8.Make
sure that you are using 32-bit version of IE- Microsoft Recommended. - This is
very important as it resolves most of the issues.

If you have any queries/questions regarding the above mentioned
information then please let me know. I would be more than happy to help you as
well as resolves your issues, Thank you.

Request: If you have any other resolution then please share so
that it would be helpful for the entire community, Thanks again!

3 comments:

Apoorva,You have asked a very valid question! No, it does not support 100% validation, that's why i mentioned in the first point (Remove the Consolidation, Data sources and Data validations on the file to have a test whether it fixes this issue). You need to remove completely and check the results. Once you are good that the results are fine then start with minor validation and then again check the results! - this will take some time to check the results as it's not 100% solid proof!